Back in 2012 Lorine from the Olive Tree Genealogy blog described several types of Genealogist. I have been publishing these profiles every so often. Which traits do you exhibit?

The Scholar: This genealogist lives and breathes source citations. Accuracy is everything to this research. You’ll often find this person submitting articles to scholarly journals as the NYGBR. Page after page of red edit marks don’t intimidate them, they’ll plow through their article drafts, refining and revising and making each more accurate than the last.

DNA doesn’t lie but there are some who, when contacted by a match, are adamant that there is no match. They dismiss the scientific evidence from DNA tests. In a recent comment on Facebook Meg Barger Amouroux called this affliction DNA Denial.

I was just using the term Geneamecca in a blog post and thought that I’d share a link to the term on the Geneadictionary but I found that it was missing. I am rectifying that situation.

I thought that I had coined this term, Geneamecca but before laying claim to it I did a Google search I found that a blogger, Jeanine M Thompson, had used it in a blog post in 2009. Perhaps others had also used it before. In that post the blogger described Salt Lake City, the Geneamecca as ” the “ultimate destination” for any genealogist! “. Becky Wiseman has also used the term in some posts on her Kinexxions blog